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aisha rasheed cares about education. more than ten years ago as a new college grad she started working for the local new orleans paper, the times picayune. she was assigned the education beat. she was shocked to learn about the dismal condition of the schools. she left the paper in 2005 to improve the system through advocacy. then hurricane katrina hit. and in the aftermath many reformers were determined to fix the broken system with a new one that relies heavily on charter schools. the system has some benefits, but it came at the cost of neighborhood schools. teachers were dispersed and leaders left, buildings were closed and schools that people had never heard of emerged while long-time community institutions were replaced. families were left with questions. which schools were open, which ones required applications? is there any transportation? and most importantly, which schools are performing? and there was no one source for parents to get the answers. until aisha lit a can knelt dark maze of a disconnected system. s
aisha rasheed cares about education. more than ten years ago as a new college grad she started working for the local new orleans paper, the times picayune. she was assigned the education beat. she was shocked to learn about the dismal condition of the schools. she left the paper in 2005 to improve the system through advocacy. then hurricane katrina hit. and in the aftermath many reformers were determined to fix the broken system with a new one that relies heavily on charter schools. the system...
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let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> we've told you before about true the vote. the organization whose website claims to be about, squoet, equipping citizens to take a stand for free and fair elections. but their version of taking a stand equates to attempting to have hundreds of people removed from voter rolls. and dispatching true the vote voluntaries on election day to challenge and intimidate voters at the polls. well, one member of congress has said, enough. in a letter to true the vote, founder catherine egglebreck, democratic representative elijah cummings is calling them out for illegitimate voter challenges. representative cummings writes, quote, an effort to challenge voter registrations by the thousands without any legitimate basis may be evidence of illegal voter supposed proegs. if these efforts are intentional, politically motivated and wide spread across multiple states, they could amount to criminal conspiracy to de
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> we've told you before about true the vote. the organization whose website claims to be about, squoet, equipping citizens to take a stand for free and fair elections. but their version of taking a stand equates to attempting to have hundreds of people removed from voter rolls. and dispatching true the vote voluntaries on election day to challenge and...
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let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> welcome back. i'm melissa harris-perry in new york. with laryngitis. on wednesday, the supreme court heard arguments in fisher versus the university of texas. that outcome of that case could eradicate the use of affirmative action in the college admissions process as we know it. at the table, kenji yoshino, professor at nyu school of law, the acting president and director and counsel of the naacp legal defense fund and back with us chloe angyal and robert traynham. >>> talk to me about the history of affirmative action. where does it begin and how do we get to where we are today? >> because this case is coming out of texas. the history should begin with sweat v painter. it cleared the way for brown versus board of education. it was in the days where texas stood for exclusion and didn't want african-americans to go to the flagship institution. thorough good won that case and we got brown. in that
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> welcome back. i'm melissa harris-perry in new york. with laryngitis. on wednesday, the supreme court heard arguments in fisher versus the university of texas. that outcome of that case could eradicate the use of affirmative action in the college admissions process as we know it. at the table, kenji yoshino, professor at nyu school of law, the acting...